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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2014 7:47:44 GMT -8
I've been using Stellarium for my dark sky observing planning software for a couple of years now and I wonder if anyone knows how to toggle off the constantly moving sky. The clock is constantly ticking and I'd like to have it stop. The deep zoom feature isn't very useful when the tight field keeps flying across the sky.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2014 11:49:20 GMT -8
DSD, I will fire up my old pc to see what is needed to turn off the time feature. But i do not believe it has that option. Also what version is it? MMc
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2014 12:16:10 GMT -8
OK DSD.. Press the "7" key. The clock will stop. I found this in the settings panel that pops up on the left vertical. My version is 12.4 (64-bit) Probably the same in 32 bit. Hope this helps. MMc
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2014 16:07:28 GMT -8
Thanks Mark.
It worked. It didn't a few days ago but I was obviously doing something wrong. Probably had the time window active and then pushed 7. Now I get out of the time window then hit 7 or maybe hit 7 even before I go to change the time. I have version 12.1 Maybe I should update?
Now I can get a good look at Saturn's moons or Jupiter's for any certain time. Plus I can zoom for really faint stars if I want.
Thanks.
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Post by James on Jun 4, 2014 19:37:20 GMT -8
Hi Darrell, If you click on the “Play” button, located in the bottom toolbar, just below the date and time, it will Pause time as well. See attached image. Alternately if you want to track an object and keep it in the center of FOV, left click on the target and then click with the 3rd mouse button (most commonly pushing down on the scroll wheel). You can now zoom in and control the date and time while keeping the object centered. This can be useful to watch the movement of Jupiter’s moons for upcoming transits. CS James
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2014 22:21:31 GMT -8
Thanks James.
Excellent.
For years I had perfected my 1989 version of the dos program Skyglobe. But now I must get better with Stellarium. So far I've just been using it for finding the times of the Right Ascension on the meridian for each hour of my planned observing night. Then with those times written down I'd be computer free on site and use my Pocket Sky Atlas for checking out what's on the meridian when.
Also I like to see how high above the horizon an object is and when. I find the data read out rather cluttered and hard to read but the Extinction Magnitude is interesting.
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